Entrepreneurs suffer a lot of demotivation. I even saw that in 16-year-old entrepreneurs just starting out at a school I help with entrepreneurial development. It steals your focus. It diminishes your energy. It robs you of achieving something greater in life. Isn’t that why you started the business, to have something better? It can feel like an insurmountable brick wall…

Darth Vader ran a massive empire and this applies to small business management as well. A death star does not run itself, someone needs to be in charge. Not the men in black, this was the MAN in black and he ran a tight ship. That said, he made me think a lot about running a business and small business…

Our obsession with building successful small businesses should stop. We should rather have an obsession with building successful entrepreneurs because businesses come and go but entrepreneurs should last for as long as possible. Yes, we look at Google and we look at Facebook as super successful companies and we all strive to build something like that. But their day of…

A client fired me and must wholeheartedly agree with why they did it. If I was in their situation I would also fire me. It was many years ago and I started a new relationship with a customer. It was the early days of the internet and many new technologies, as well as new methods, came out on a monthly…

It is not always easy to deal with your challenges but they are a very important part of life. If you wake u one day and have no challenges, nothing pushing you out of your comfort zone then you might just be dead. Get on your knees and pray for challenges to come. Why? When you deal with your challenges…

I cover the 3 types of client nightmares facing new small business owners and then give you suggestions on how to handle them at the end. Not all clients are made equal. The sooner new small business owners learn this the better. A “bad” client can ruin your new small business in no time. Not all doom and gloom though,…